A brand new app goals to assist the tens of millions of individuals dwelling with lengthy covid

Seen is only one of a spread of initiatives designed to assist individuals with lengthy covid. Researchers from College Faculty London have lately created an app known as Lungy, which is designed to assist customers with lengthy covid, bronchial asthma, or power obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD) do respiration workout routines. One other app, from the UK’s Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, has been developed to assist sufferers log their progress in order that clinicians can regulate their therapy accordingly.

Behind the numbers, there is a gigantic quantity of particular person ache, distress, and frustration relating to medical ignorance in regards to the situation, says Mike Clarke, a 44-year-old medical copywriter in Bristol, UK, who has been dwelling with lengthy covid since October 2020. He has to spend hours on daily basis mendacity down as a result of even simply sitting up places pressure on his coronary heart.

“I had a few significantly unhealthy well being days, and my rating [on the app] the following day was appropriately low. It might not look like a lot, however after two years of medical doctors telling me all medical exams confirmed that the whole lot in my physique was effective, I’ve felt extra validated by the information from Seen in per week and half of use,” he says.

“After two years with completely no progress, most individuals like me with lengthy covid are determined for somebody or one thing—something—to supply hope. To me, the Seen app gives me little glimpses of that.”